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Scott McCrae

Helldivers 2 players vote on which planet to fire our shiny new laser beam at, channelling Star Wars in a democratic move that couldn't possibly go wrong

Two Helldivers pull a classic fart gag.

Helldivers 2 players can vote on which planet Super Earth will test out its newest weapon on, which is eerily similar to a big planet-exploding laser from some old movie I watched once.

Last week, the government of Super Earth announced that it was working to convert the Democracy Space Station into a "macro-scale laser, capable of generating a high-yield beam optimized for mass Freedom dispensation." And in the week since the space station has been equipped with the Star of Peace, which is "a Dark Fluid-powered high-yield weapon capable of collapsing an entire planet into a black hole." And now, in the name of democracy, the government is asking the Helldivers to decide which planet it should be aimed at.

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